Selected essays
Orwell, George, 1903-19502021
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. George Orwell was one of the most celebrated essayists in the English language, and there are quite a few of his essays which are probably better known than any of his other writings apart from Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Stefan Collini presents a collection of Orwell's longer, major essays as well as a selection of shorter pieces, arranged into three categories: Personal/Descriptive, Literary, and Political.
Main title:
Selected essays / by George Orwell ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stefan Collini.
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Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Collation:
xxxii, 329 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references.
Contents:
IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of George Orwell Selected EssaysShooting an elephant (1936)Inside the whale (1940)Charles Dickens (1940)Boys' weeklies (1940)The art of Donald McGill (1941)Wells, Hitler and the world state (1941)Rudyard Kipling (1942)Raffles and Miss Blandish (1944)In defence of P.G. Wodehouse (1945)Notes on nationalism (1945)The prevention of literature (1946)Decline of the English murder (1946)Politics and the English language (1946)Confessions of a book reviewer (1946)Why I write (1946)Politics vs literature: an examination of Gulliver's Travels (1946)How the poor die (1946)Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool (1947)Writers and Leviathan (1948)Explanatory Notes.
ISBN:
9780198804178 (paperback)
Dewey class:
824.912
Language:
English
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BRN:
500768
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 824.912 SEL | Available |